We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

Never promise more than you can perform.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Where there is unity there is always victory.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

What is left when honor is lost?

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.